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[Biscuit]

"Pseudo does not mean stupid."

I nearly spit out my ardbeg!

 

[Retrograde]

Originally Posted by jaydeehess
its an aquired taste, such as it is for Islay Scotch

Which is why I'm a great person to take to Scotch tastings: I can't get past the smell of the stuff (even the non-Islays) and so end up being the designated driver.

When we were in the Highlands a few years ago, the landlady at our B&B brought us breakfast with a number of small pitchers, including "some Scotch for your oatmeal".

 

[jaydeehess]

ooooh, don't know that I could drink any whiskey(or whisky) before noon. Never have been of that mind.
As it is now my health precludes me doing any more than two or three drinks (whiskey, beer or wine) at a sitting. But that's ok since up to my 40's I managed to drink my quota.

Frankly one actually enjoys whatever libation one cares to imbibe when one still has one's wits about them.
After 6 oz of Islay single malt you might as well switch to Johnny Walker Red or Cutty Sark for all the actual tasting you are doing.

 

[jaydeehess]

Which is why I'm a great person to take to Scotch tastings: I can't get past the smell of the stuff (even the non-Islays) and so end up being the designated driver.

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We had an guy like that at a Burns supper a few years ago. He tried a few single malts and asked 'How many of these do you have to drink before it tastes good?".

 

[Cocana The Second]

That's in the "Rant Room" so you have to be a registered member there to access it. Gotta love the moderator trying to discourage opposing viewpoints right after that though.

Damn it, now the cat's out of the bag. And I'm supposed to be deep deep undercover.

 

[threadworm]

We had an guy like that at a Burns supper a few years ago. He tried a few single malts and asked 'How many of these do you have to drink before it tastes good?".

And how was A&E?

 

[Cuddles]

The preceding posts from Hoi, Icarus, Sister et al have made me realise for one thing that weightlessness is a result of being in freefall, not of being in an environment where there is little or no gravity.(ditto)

Actually, that one is entirely correct. The gravity in Earth orbit is not much less than at the surface. That's why you have to orbit the planet - always in freefall towards it, but missing because you also have a tangential velocity - rather than just being able to sit stationary above it.

 

[Travis]

Yes, of course what they miss is that just because weightlessness in orbit is from freefall does not mean there is no weightlessness out in the depths of space.

 

[Spindrift]

Yes, of course what they miss is that just because weightlessness in orbit is from freefall does not mean there is no weightlessness out in the depths of space.

Technically there isn't weightlessness any where. It may be effectively weightless but it isn't completely weightless.

 

[Alareth]

Matron Saint of the right wing kooks, Phyllis Schlafly, wants to reinstate the House Un-American Activities Committee so the government can hunt for Muslims.

Her latest article at World Net Daily is filled to the brim with crazy ideas about the Boston bombing and immigration, but the second paragraph stands out:

For starters, why would our government have admitted the Tsarnaev family whose son was named Tamerlan? That should have been a red alert because that is the name of one of the world’s notorious mass murderers, a 14th-century Central Asian warlord named Tamerlan, who killed about 17 million people.

In her next article I'm sure she will call for the deportation of anyone named Joseph or Adolph.

 

[000063]

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewreply/178793/

Playing with math and assuming it must apply to physics is dumb.

 

[swright777]

Which is why I'm a great person to take to Scotch tastings: I can't get past the smell of the stuff (even the non-Islays) and so end up being the designated driver.

When we were in the Highlands a few years ago, the landlady at our B&B brought us breakfast with a number of small pitchers, including "some Scotch for your oatmeal".

Same here. Scotch, Bourbon, practically every whiskey. I'd have never made it in the wild west.

I accidentally took a big drink of my dads whiskey when I was 2 or 3. I thought it was coke because it was in a McDonald's cup. I'd forgot about it until I tried whiskey when I was in the Navy and that memory came rushing back.

 

[matt.tansy]

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewreply/178793/

CTs always accuse people who find fatal flaws in their simple-minded worldview as unable to think outside the box. That guy can't even picture what a box looks like in his mind.

 

[jaydeehess]

Actually, that one is entirely correct. The gravity in Earth orbit is not much less than at the surface. That's why you have to orbit the planet - always in freefall towards it, but missing because you also have a tangential velocity - rather than just being able to sit stationary above it.

Yes, of course what they miss is that just because weightlessness in orbit is from freefall does not mean there is no weightlessness out in the depths of space.

Indeed what Travis points out was my point. Yes, freefall can create the illusion of no gravity but get far enough away from a large mass (moons , stars , planets) and gravity as a result of one's own mass predominates and is very small.

 

[jaydeehess]

As reported by Graham2001 in this thread:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9182277&postcount=13

The buildings broke down faster than a single chicken bone in sulfuric acid (NINE HOURS).

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...ner-police-say

What does the breakdown of chicken bones in sulphuric acid have to do with a collapsing building!,,, and why was this guy dissolving chicken bones?

 

[Philth53]

What does the breakdown of chicken bones in sulphuric acid have to do with a collapsing building!,,, and why was this guy dissolving chicken bones?

I'd hazard the guess it has to do with KFC's new commercial dealing with "Eating The Bones."

Roll my eyes back, please.

Phil

 

[The Palmernator]

http://www.getoutofdebtfree.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=49164

Here's a grammar stundie, based on JUDGE: David-Wynne:Miller's incoherent ramblings. For those who aren't aware, this chap invented the surname-colon-first name method of spelling one's name, much favoured by FMOTLER types.

Here goes:

No Parking. No is an adverb which modifies the verb parking, then they put a box around it so it is in an enclosed area and can't be considered because it is a lie in the first place. No is a negative condition so how do you "NO" park. You cannot create a negative condition of state, where is the fact. How can you pay a fine for a "NO" fact?

You get that? Nope, me neither.

 

[threadworm]

http://www.getoutofdebtfree.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=49164

Here's a grammar stundie, based on JUDGE: David-Wynne:Miller's incoherent ramblings. For those who aren't aware, this chap invented the surname-colon-first name method of spelling one's name, much favoured by FMOTLER types.

Here goes:



You get that? Nope, me neither.

No is an adverb

No. It isn't.

 

[fromdownunder]

No, parking.

All fixed.

Norm

 

[cjnewson88]

Are youtube comments out of the Realm of stundies?

Regarding the recent news of the discovery of a Boeing landing gear part which was blown outside the towers by the impact;

The heat of the burning fuel from the exploded plane was enough to melt the steel girders of the building, but it left this piece of the plane nicely intact so that even the (conveniently placed) Boeing serial number could be read.